Politics of Display

Museums

+ outside
- impressive buildings

+inside
- not what you expect
- collections usually based around a concept
- show you other that aren't yourself

Collection Classification Surveillance
+ ordering of the other

'Wunder Kammer'    - doesn't have to link
- artists like to display work like a wunder kammer rather than classically

house of a famous person
- make it look like the person is still living there

museums invite artists to change the displays around 
 - choose things to display from storage

Tate - galleries
-> sugar - Tates made millions in sugar plantations - with the money, donated art works to the public
-> all the money came from the slaves - 'blood money'

original site of the Tate was Millbank Penetary
now for lookin at art

- Foucoutt said they are alike - to make you a 'better person'
galleries - free - civilising culture

Tate Britain
relatively traditional 
canonical movements
usually ignore women artists

MOMA
Museum of Modern Arts - New York

Alfred H Barr
- torpedo diagrams - display concept - "machine for the future"
- interested in education
   - displays
- letting people understand art

making a map of all the different ways of making art + how they fit in with each other
usually exhibitions of one artist work
but can start to mix artists work 
 - to compare them

Barr - put art + craft in galleries together
 - he saw craft as art
- interested in design as well as art 
- idea of 'what is art?'

Mary Beth Edelson 1972
Female - the last supper
  'Some Living American Women Artists'

Gordon Matta Clark
Bingo Niagara Falls 1972
house form 'love canal'
 - houses built on a chemical dump
- environmental activism

Matta Clark took the houses apart
 - interested in splitting up words - letting them decay
-> de-construct what goes into a gallery
outside -> inside

museums after modernisms - Griselda Pollock

Original Display Theme Tate Modern
- split into 4 areas
same now but different topics/titles

idea of juxtaposition

Richard Long
 walking works

museums - Power Structures - scale - past happenings
craft galleries - don't look as spectacular

- viewing of artwork would be different in different galleries

Gustav Mestka
 made art that fell apart/destroyed itself after a period of time